7.15.12

An Ode to the Universe
AKA The Day of My Birth Revisited 35 Years Later

O glorious day of my Start Begin!
How grateful I am to you
for penciling me into your schedule!
You had a lot going on that day.
And yet…
you made the time for me.

I look at star charts and read my horoscope
but I can only guess the planetary positions
and the aspects in the sky.
I don’t know the hour of my birth.
I don’t know what your plans were and are for me.
(That’s okay! I do like surprises!)

And in fact,
I may not have been born this day
so many years ago.
That’s okay too! (I do like a tantalizing mystery!)
I have no official birth certificate to verify me.
Which suits me, the Lorax and the trees!

Adopted. Check.
Naturalized. Check.
My Port of Entry? Denver Colorado.
My ship arrived by Air not Water.
I was given a change of scenery.
From city to country.

My earliest memories of Earth
are a cookie-cutter neighborhood.
Each house and driveway the same…
The same…
The same…
The same.

I recall
the vast Colorado plain
stretching under a wide open skyscape.
Those distant Rocky mountains on the horizon
calling to me.
I can still see them so clearly in my mind’s eye.

Would I be the same person I am today?
Would I in Seoul?
Maybe ‘yes’ and maybe ‘no’.
That old Nature vs. Nurture argument…
how it makes me laugh.
Some say, “We’ll never know.”

I know.
I wouldn’t be the person I am today.
I wouldn’t have done the things I’ve done.
Or seen what I have seen.
Learned what I have learned.
Be who I am Now.

The position of the planets in the signs of the Zodiac has an influence on the character of the individual and these influences form a large part of the individual psyche.

Sun in Cancer

She weighs words carefully and is tenacious. A calm and discreet nature, tender, thoughtful, sensitive and impressionable. She likes group life.

Weaknesses: She is humble, timid, changeable, indecisive, lazy, over-sensitive and prickly. Easily influenced by the family.

Moon in Cancer

She is likeable and sociable. Very sensitive to environmental conditions and surroundings. She likes home, habits, comfort and her little world. Large families.

Weaknesses: subject to family circle, indolence, inertia. She is impressionable and too sensitive. Family problems.

Mercury in Leo

Ambitious, sincere, loyal, friendly and full of good cheer. Great sense of organization. Likes children and leisure time.

Weaknesses: likes to play games too much and can go too far, in spite of herself. Likes to play-act and do about-turns, which surprise and upset those concerned. Likes to take risks in jest and for amusement.

Venus in Gemini

“Gift of the gab“, always finds the right expression. A good talker, refined, with a love of the Arts. Two-sided in emotional affairs, flirtatious. Superficial emotions. Countless and inconstant love affairs. Likes to play love games.

Weaknesses: Instability and fickleness in love. Often goes too far in love because of the desire to flirt and play on the other person, who will often suffer – but that is not her problem. Inconstant in love, which is ephemeral: she is unfaithful and can sometimes speak caustically.

Mars in Taurus

She is a choleric type, loud-mouthed. She is masterful, dominates and imposes herself forcefully. She carries on to the end of a goal, achieves it and undertakes another action with the same strong will and enthusiasm.

Weaknesses: she is tenacious and stubborn. The rages, which are usually restricted to words, are frightening.

Jupiter in Gemini

Very good education, she is also a good talker. She likes to travel, to write, to increase her knowledge.

Weaknesses: likes to puff herself up with grandiose speeches or fine words. Does not listen to others but likes to be listened to.

Saturn in Leo

In a position of authority, she likes responsibilities and assumes them. She receives favours from patrons, who recognize her merits or similarly receives honors in return for well-accomplished tasks.

She looks on the bright side of life: she is gay, agreeable, optimistic, sociable. She likes to speak and write, and does both with charm and artistry. Her intellectual pleasures are influenced by her feelings. She is amorous and sensual. She likes beauty, the Arts but also travelling.

147 Trine Moon – Uranus

She is imaginative and has the Moon’s intuition complemented by Uranus’ independence and originality. Her life is out-of-the-ordinary, with lots of changes and a great knowledge of the world not through reading but through personal experience. She likes the sensational, new things. She acts instinctively, but fortunately has a good sixth sense. She likes to be surrounded by original people, artists.

-90 Square Mercury – Uranus

She likes polemic, to criticize and, above all, to contradict. She lacks diplomacy and tends to dissipate her energy. She cannot stay in the same place, likes change even if it means a backward step in her professional career.

-89 Square Moon – Pluto

She has problems in love. She is jealous, her self-esteem is often quickly held up to ridicule.

-88 Opposition Venus – Neptune

She lacks self-confidence and her ideals are not easy to achieve. In love, she is unstable, unfaithful and deceitful. She is easy-going and follows others, she does not take the initiative.

69 Conjunction Mercury – Saturn

56 Trine Venus – Pluto

Her emotional and sex life is powerful and rich. She lives out truly passionate love affairs.

54 Sextile Mercury – Pluto

She has a great sense of observation and quickly grasps the situation. She is crafty, subtle and critical.

37 Trine Mercury – Neptune

She can put down in writing everything that her imagination and intuition dictates.

27 Trine Saturn – Neptune

Her plans are realized in a methodical fashion, she works hard to achieve success.